Arpita Roy – Watching Men in Black after a Road Trip to LA

Marianne Kunkel – Wave Pool

Claire Denson – Age Regression Blues in Sandusky, Ohio ; She Was a Photographer

Angela Wang – the storms that tie my family

Susan Muth – Main Post Chapel (2025 Summer Contest Winner)

Taylor Franson-Thiel – Bermuda Petrel

Danilo Marin – When the Wolf Went Missing in Eden Park

Nabeela Washington    – Fearing for my life in Whole Foods ; I DREAM OF SUING THE BESSEMER HOUSING AUTHORITY FOR FALSE IMPRISONMENT

Arah Ko – Ambergris

Rimas Uzgiris – The Mole

Hannah Smith – Geology Lesson

Coco Owen – Noö n

Virgil Suárez – Dragqueen Story Time

Aimee de la Fuente – Snake in a Bucket, Lake of the Ozarks ‘99

Eli Karren – Balloonfest ’86

Apollo Chastain – Pop art!

William Archila – Little insect, little superfly 4

Allyson Wuerth – The Tightrope

Andy Eaton – Portable Sanctuary ; The Blade

Daniel Lurie – Pocket Change Elegy and Inheritance

Emily Kingery – Changeling

Marcelle Broadbooks – faux fur coat

Maggie Greaves – Believe the Children

Thea Matthews – Great American Suicide Note

Ngozi Ekeledo – Soliloquy on Water

Ben Chavez – Things to Pack When Moving to Venus

Kyle Mercer – The List

KP McLaughlin – Mulligan

Ân Nguyễn – The Contract

Mohammad SalehSahragard – Morphine and the Knight (2025 Summer Contest Winner)

Elzbieta Zdunek Self-Love Propaganda

JJ Cromer The Transactional Interpretation

Eris Gentle A Smooth Transition of Power

Sandro Gebert Eye on the Prize

Jim Woodson Surrounded Animating Emergent

Robert Casella Untitled

August Reed – Swallow the Moon

Victoria Hood – The Other Man: I Can’t Be With

Michelle Silver – Necessary Pain

Daniel Sociu translated by Monica Cure Untitled I; Untitled II

Tanya Klimova translated by Lydia Prodi –  No one but themselves

Víctor Cabrera translated by James Richie Twenty Sad Songs ; The Fifth Scarab (A

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